Hastings v. Pichinson

POPE, Justice.

Plaintiffs, John J. Pichinson and others, sued for and obtained a declaratory judgment that they own the gas under two leases. The question is whether the two leases have terminated as to gas, and if so whether they were revived. The jury answered all issues for the plaintiffs. We hold that' plaintiffs, as a matter of law, own one lease, but lost the other.

The first lease was executed on February 9, 1958, by G. B. Hastings and wife, and was for oil and gas under 188.74 acres of Frio County land. At the time of trial there was a gas well on that tract. We shall call it the…